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From the Grand Theft Auto wikia
Carl "CJ" Johnson is the protagonist and main playable character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Carl "CJ" Johnson, was born in Los Santos, San Andreas, to mother Beverly Johnson. He would have been born before 1969 (assuming he was 18 or older in 1987, able to live on his own in another city). He is Beverly's second child, the first being Sean (aka Sweet), then Carl, followed very soon after by Kendl and finally Brian. Sweet recalls that CJ was born in the Johnson House, the family's childhood and current home. Old Reece, a family friend, recalls memories of CJ's father (though Reece's sanity is in question), though CJ tells Joey Leone that he never knew his father, and Sweet was man of the house. Another one of CJ's memories is swimming off the coast of the Santa Maria, having a condom get stuck to his face, and has since then been reasonably afraid to swim. The Johnson siblings, along with Melvin (aka Big Smoke) and Lance (aka Ryder), grew up on the same cul-de-sac and were childhood friends. CJ recalls Ryder dealing drugs since he was ten.
Teenage years in gang lifestyleEdit
Sweet became the leader of the Grove Street Families, which introduced him, CJ and even Brian into gang life. During this time frame, Grove Street Families were at the height of their power when they first became pressured by Frank Tenpenny, the corrupt police officer of C.R.A.S.H.. It's likely that officer Eddie Pulaski was also serving with Tenpenny at this time. In 1987, the gang was shaken by the death of young Brian. Sweet laments that Carl "let Brian die" and did not call for help, causing Carl to leave for Liberty City in that same year. He was no longer considered a member of Grove Street, and would later have to earn his way back into the gang. Big Smoke says that CJ was more muscular in these days, and that "the east coast got you all thinned out".
Adult life in Liberty CityEdit
In Liberty City, he had the opportunity of working with Don Salvatore Leone's son, Joey Leone in the car theft business, and is once seen mugging a passer-by on the streets in Liberty City. In 1992, after five years, Sweet calls Carl on his cell phone to tell him his mother was killed in a drive-by shooting (calling only minutes after it happened). Carl returns to Los Santos for the funeral, with the partial consideration of staying there long-term.
Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasEdit
Return to his gang in Los SantosEdit
As soon as Carl is in Los Santos, he is immediately confronted by members of C.R.A.S.H., who explain to him that either he will work for them, or they will frame him for killing officer Pendelbury, who they actually killed themselves for threatening to expose their corruption. CJ finally meets with his siblings and friends of Grove Street Families, who explain that they lost much of their power since the last five years - a result of the growing crack cocaine trend and, though Sweet doesn't admit it, didn't have as much personal strength as a leader without CJ home (Interestingly, CJ's appearance at the beginning of the game is similar to Chris Tucker's character in the film "Money Talks"). Carl and Sweet work furiously to successfully bring the gang back to power, CJ regaining his brother's respect in the process. This included reuniting with Seville and Temple families, as well as Aztecas leader Cesar Vialpando (who, although a rival of Sweet's at the time, began a loving relationship with Kendl). CJ also helped OG Loc, another neighborhood friend, albeit a highly laughable "poser" who aspired to be a rapper (ruining rap superstar Madd Dogg's career in the process, and changing the music industry). The gang is at the second height of its power until Cesar reveals to CJ that Ryder and Big Smoke have betrayed the gang and Tenpenny killed CJ's mom. CJ then must immediately rush to a gang war and rescue a heavily-wounded Sweet until both of them are arrested (by C.R.A.S.H.).
Grove and Aztecas fall, which results in total domination of Los Santos by the Ballas and Vagos, led by Big Smoke (Cesar later explains the loss of gang loyalty and that Ballas, Vagos and former Groves alike all work for Smoke, saying "this shit is bigger than any gang, ese"). OG Loc also becomes rich and famous, with Big Smoke acting as his manager as a means to launder his money.
New life in San Fierro and Las VenturasEdit
C.R.A.S.H. abandons CJ in rural Whetstone to eliminate a witness against them. It is slowly revealed that they are being tried in court over their corruption (in a case that is quickly building in media attention). Cesar connects CJ to his (mentally unstable) cousin Catalina. Tenpenny introduces CJ to The Truth, who is supplying Tenpenny and CJ with tons of weed to frame a D.A. and enemy of Tenpenny's. Tenpenny demands that CJ pay for the shipment, which forces him to return to work with Catalina, who now has an obsessive crush on him. CJ meets Triad leader Wu Zi Mu "Woozie" during a street race. Catalina finds him at the race and feels neglected/enraged at CJ, also proclaiming that she has a new boyfriend, Claude. CJ defeats Claude in a street race, gaining the deed to Claude's run down garage
Carl leaves for San Fierro with Truth and Tenpenny's marijuana (despite Tenpenny betraying The Truth). They meet Cesar and Kendl at the garage in Doherty, San Fierro. CJ is angry and believes that the garage is completely useless. Kendl explains to CJ that the property is a great opportunity, and through Truth he hires Dwaine, Jethro and Zero to work in the garage. CJ meets with Woozie in San Fierro and the two quickly become strong allies, collaborating to take down each other's enemies - CJ targeting the Loco Syndicate (Big Smoke's suppliers) and Woozie's rivals the Da Nang Boys. CJ infiltrates and eventually kills all the chief members - Jizzy B, T-Bone Mendez, Mike Toreno (as it would seem) and even Ryder from his old gang.
The garage (now an illegal car shop), as well as renting out property, has now made CJ a millionaire. He receives an anonymous phone call to go to a mysterious ranch. It is eventually revealed to be an alive-and-well Toreno, who is a government agent and is recruiting CJ's help in exchange for releasing Sweet from a supposedly permanent life sentence. Although it is a well-kept secret from all his friends, Truth finds CJ at Toreno's place of operation and tells CJ that Toreno can't be trusted. He continues to recruit CJ's help in stealing a jetpack from Area 69, which is needed for Truth's main goal of stealing mysterious, all-important green goo.
Woozie invites CJ to the Triad's extremely glamorous Four Dragons Casino in Las Venturas. Upon arrival, CJ is given shares in the casino by Woozie, "in exchange for some help setting it up". They are faced with aggressive competition from Mafia-run Caligula's Palace and as revenge, spend weeks and weeks planning an extremely elaborate heist of Caligula's. This dually involves CJ infiltrating Caligula's inner circle of management (by chance of Truth's association with music industry men Kent Paul and Maccer) to work with manager Ken "Rosie" Rosenberg and even don Salvatore Leone (CJ helps Rosie, Paul and Maccer fake their deaths to escape Salvatore's rage). During this time period, C.R.A.S.H. extracts the last of CJ's labor before they try to kill CJ (and their own Hernandez for snitching on him), CJ killing Pulaski and escaping alive. CJ also, by chance, sees Madd Dogg attempting suicide and saves his life, partially out of guilt for ruining his career.
Return to Los Santos and revengeEdit
His ongoing vendetta on Tenpenny and Big Smoke, finalized by Madd Dogg having to sell his mansion to drug lord Big Poppa, prompts CJ to return to Los Santos, taking back the rapper's mansion by force. While recording Madd Dogg's new album, Toreno gives CJ the last of his work (despite CJ's extreme frustration at first) before Sweet is released from prison.
Sweet is disgusted at CJ for his new millionaire's lifestyle, and having forgotten all about helping Grove Street. Sweet immediately takes Carl to begin their task of reclaiming all of their turf. As the gang returns to power, he finds time to get back Madd Dogg's rhyme book from OG Loc, repairing Madd Dogg's career as well as being another strike to Big Smoke. In the case against Tenpenny, it's shown on the news that he would walk free, and only minutes after there were citywide riots. During the confusion, Grove Street families take most of the city's turf, CJ personally kills Big Smoke (to earn Sweet's respect), and Tenpenny also dies.
At a celebration at the Johnson house, Madd Dogg announces "our first gold record" to CJ and Rosenberg. Later in the night, Sweet insists on making Grove Street a priority, Kendl suggests going back to Las Venturas with Woozy, but Carl's only reply was that he is "fitting to hit the block, see what's happening".
After "San Andreas"Edit
At the very end of the game, CJ is a young multi-millionaire. His assets and business interests include Grove Street gang and Madd Dogg's contract in Los Santos, a car garage and several other properties in San Fierro, and shares in Four Dragons casino in Las Venturas. He even still has the government's $60 million jetpack.
An Easter Egg in Grand Theft Auto IV suggests that CJ possibly died after 1992. However a reference of his death is never directly made. Either way, this is not considered canon for the GTA III Era.
Murders committed by Carl JohnsonEdit
- Freddy (Killed by CJ and OG Loc after a bike chase for stealing Loc's "rhymes")
- Alan Crawford (Killed on OG Loc's orders in order to sabotage Madd Dogg's career)
- Little Weasel (Killed for betraying the Grove Street Families and joining the Ballas)
- Kane (Killed on Sweet's orders to deal damage to the Ballas)
- Jizzy B. (Killed in order to begin disbanding the Loco Syndicate and to obtain the location of the Syndicate's next drug deal)
- T-Bone Mendez (Killed with the help of Cesar Vialpando to disband the Loco Syndicate)
- Ryder (Killed for betraying the Grove Street Families)
- The Snakehead (Killed on orders from Wu Zi Mu to weaken the Da Nang Boys)
- Benny (Killed in order to get access to Millie Perkins' Home)
- Eddie Pulaski (Killed for arranging the assassination of CJ's mother)
- Big Poppa (Killed in order to recover Madd Dogg's mansion)
- Big Smoke (Killed for betraying the Grove Street Families)
Optional MurdersEdit
- Millie Perkins - Can be killed to gain quicker access to her keycard to rob Caligula's Casino.
Deleted MurdersEdit
- Officer Carver - Would be killed for attempting to have Poncho arrested and make him talk.
- Marco Forelli - Was going to be the mobster who CJ kills in Saint Marks but due to deleted audio, his name is never mentioned in the final game.
CJ is markedly different from the previous playable characters in the Grand Theft Auto series. While Claude and Tommy Vercetti are both depicted as completely heartless and feeling no regret for all of the people that they kill, CJ is depicted as having a considerably less violent personality, occasionally giving his victims a chance to redeem themselves. An example is his failed attempt at convincing Eddie Pulaski to see that he was no more than Tenpenny's pawn. Furthermore, CJ displays genuine remorse for having to kill fellow Grove Street friends Ryder and Big Smoke, who he considered close friends. However, CJ still has no problem with killing members of other gangs, and willfully slaughters any that get in his way of reclaiming Grove Street Families turf or try to sabotage his businesses.
CJ was voiced by Chris Bellard, known as Young Maylay. Rumors circulated the internet for a while that either Dave Chappelle or 50 Cent were supposed to voice CJ, but these were most likely just wishful thoughts on the part of their fans.
- Carl is the most customizable character in a GTA game to date, featuring clothes, tattoos, and hairstyles and the ability to change his physical appearance such as make him fat or strong.
- Carl Johnson is extremely anti-narcotic. He repeatedly refuses to take place in drug deals, and when a crack dealer tries to sell cocaine to him, CJ will always respond negatively. Also he dislikes Ryder because he is often under the influence of drugs. The only time CJ works for a drug deal is in the mission Outrider, when he makes sure a van reaches its destination un-damaged (the van is delivering some drugs to a crack factory in Doherty, San Fierro). Although he does this mission in order to gain the trust of the heads of the Loco Syndicate, and then kill them, because they are providing Big Smoke and the Ballas with drugs.


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Watson might have done enough, with his all round effort and pending back to back 100s.
Watson might have done enough, with his all round effort and pending back to back 100s.
Twin unbeaten centuries. Yeah, you just can't beat that. Watto has to take it.
After this game i switch to Watto............1 ton in a Semi and one here....both match winning knocks.....he deserves it more then Ponting now.
Be VERY AFRIDI!!
Watson. Bowled well too with an average of 25 and 6 wickets.
After the final, Watto is the easy pick and he has fair claim to being the best ODI player in the world at the moment.
It's Ponting. That's a bit of a joke really. Complete joke, in fact. Do they pick it before the final is played?
Watto hard done by but he'd have to be pleased with himself.
The greatest all rounder of all time? No, but he's up there with the best of the current crop.
My choice would have been Ponting, If I had to pick before the final. But after the final it was Watson. Anyways, I guess it seems that since watson was the automatic choice for MoM they gave MoS to a Ponting.
Not that tough to be the best all-rounder in the world these days. Hit a few runs, take a few wickets and you're in.
Rest In Peace Craigos
Because they are not Watto.
Greatest Ever Test XI: JB Hobbs, L Hutton, DG Bradman (c), IVA Richards, BC Lara, GS Sobers, AC Gilchrist (wk), Imran Khan, RJ Hadlee, MD Marshall, SK Warne 12th man: M Muralitharan
Favorite XI: WG Grace, VT Trumper, IVA Richards, DCS Compton, FMM Worrell (c), AC Gilchrist (wk), CL Cairns, SK Warne, FS Trueman, SE Bond, T Richardson 12th man: H Larwood
"Neither of them will have an international cricket career past 2016."
Blocky on Martin Guptill and Ish Sodhi. 20/11/2014.
Watson deserved the MoS...........
Ponting made one in the final! One solitary run!
I think people are just seeing what they expected to see with respect to Ponting.
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SAN JOSE — I think I finally figured out why the person or people who bought the winning lottery ticket at Jenny's Gift and Kids Wear hasn't come forward to claim the $324 million prize.
They aren't lining up lawyers, CPAs or investment bankers. They're taking a few days to mourn the loss of the life they're living today.
Crazy, you say? Who would mourn losing anything after winning a fortune? Any sane person, that's who. For despite all the mystery around who won, where they are, why they haven't stepped forward, one thing is certain: The minute they speak up, their life is going to change dramatically.
Put yourself in the winner's shoes. (I know, you'd love to.) You woke up Tuesday with an ordered life: a job, a budget, friendships, obligations. That night, 8, 14, 17, 20, 39, mega number 7, and everything is turned upside down. Does work matter? Who loves you? What do they want from me?
"You have to deal with emotion," says Paul Golden, spokesman for the National Endowment for Financial Education, which promotes financial literacy. "The obvious ones are excitement and elation and this sense of security forever. But I think on the other side of it, there are emotions like anxiety, distrust, guilt."
Big winners, Golden says, are bombarded by friends and family, people coming at you with business deals, others asking for loans or donations. It's enough to have you wondering how you'll move forward.
I know. I know. You'll take the money and the problems that come with it. After all, $324 million can pay for a lot of therapy. But I'm not laying out the downside of a sudden upside just to make us losers feel better. OK, maybe it's a little of that.
Mostly, though, I'm searching for the answer that we're all searching for. Why wouldn't a lucky winner want to get his or her mitts on an amount of money that it would take Mark Zuckerberg days to make?
Granted, it's possible whoever bought the ticket on Tully Road lost it before ever looking at it. It's possible the buyer wrapped it as a Christmas gift and it's now sitting undisturbed under someone's tree. Or maybe San Jose's newest multimillionaire is carrying the ticket around without having checked its numbers.
"I think that a good portion of the benefit of a lottery ticket is the dream," says Santa Clara University professor Meir Statman, who studies behavioral finance. "For a whole week you can dream that you're going to be the one with the $300 million. The sooner you look into it, the sooner you find out you're a loser again."
Except, of course, this time someone is walking around with a ticket that is a winner. Frankly, I don't blame them for taking their time coming forward.
"The best advice I can give someone like this is, 'Just go into hiding,'" says Golden, who's joking, sort of. His point: It's good to take a cooling-off period. Rarely do any decisions need to be made right away. Take your time.
And my advice: Take time to revel in the life you lead, but will never lead again. The truth is you lose something when you win megabucks.
"Now it is the question of what are my obligations to the people around me," Statman says. "People have expectations of you, even if they are brothers or sisters. Now it's a question of what do you do? Do you give them a check for $100 or a BMW?"
And even social occasions of the sort that were once joyous and fun become awkward and uncomfortable.
"As long as it's Joe, who makes $60,000, and Ann, who makes $100,000, they're not really expected to do more than bring flowers or a bottle of wine when they visit," Statman explains. "But when you're suddenly in the $300 million range, you better bring the keys to something special. It must be unnerving to anyone."
It could be one of the reasons that people who find themselves on the business end of a windfall so often find ways to lose it all. One researcher cited by the National Endowment for Financial Education concluded that 70 percent of Americans who experience financial windfalls lose them within a few years, though Golden says the statistic is more than a decade old and that the foundation can't now put its hands on the study's methodology.
Still, it happens. And maybe just thinking about that possibility is enough, even for a newly-minted $324-million lotto winner, to pull the covers up over his or her head and stay in bed for another day.
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'Oz the Great and Powerful' -- 2 1/2 stars
PG; 2:10 running time Is "Oz the Great and Powerful" a prequel to the Oz we know best from the movies, "The Wizard of Oz," or a separate adventure culled from the L. Frank Baum books, or what? Yes to all three. In a nod to the 1939 classic, Raimi begins in Kansas in 1.33:1 screen ratio, in black and white, introducing Oscar "Oz" Diggs (Franco) as he readies a fetching new assistant for his tent-show act. One twister later, the movie expands to widescreen and color, and almost immediately we're reminded why we're wearing our 3-D glasses. Oz's hot-air balloon lands in raging fantastical river rapids, leading him to the first of the three witches of note. -- Michael PhillipsRead the full "Oz the Great and Powerful" movie review
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A Kickstarter project claims to have developed the world's smallest folding mobile Bluetooth keyboard - so small, in fact, that it can fit in your pocket.
Compatible with iOS and Android mobile devices, the keyboard features a five-way foldable hinge system that enables the Bluetooth accessory to be folded into a cube. Once opened, the keyboard measures 8.5-inches wide - which should provide plenty of room for manoeuvre when banging out those emails or filing docs on the go.
A detachable cradle clips on to the back of the keyboard and can hold a tablet device or smartphone in either portrait or landscape. By detaching the cradle you can adjust the distance of the screen accordingly.
The keyboard is the brainchild of Jorno, and the developers promise the rechargeable battery will provide enough juice to last a month, though the caveat here is that this is based on "normal usage".
Jorno has previously been associated with providing input solutions for touchscreens. With its Kickstarter campaign coming to an end, Jorno hopes its physical foldable keyboard will generate enough funding to mass-produce.
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Tioga Pass, Sonora Pass are closed
UPDATED 3 p.m. Monday. The "Granite Curtain" descended in the High Sierra Monday, when snow, wind and general "inclement weather" forced Caltrans to close both Tioga Pass (S.R. 120) and Sonora Pass (S.R. 108).
Forecasters predicted four to eight 4 to 8 inches of snow are possible in the Sierra above 8,500 feet through Tuesday morning.
Snow levels near 11,000 feet will drop to near 9,000 feet later today and fall near 8,000 feet late tonight.
Snow may affect the higher passes along U.S. 395 tonight in Mono county but accumulations are unlikely to occur.
Monitor Pass, connecting U.S. 395 to Markleeville (Alpine Country) remained open as of 3 p.m.
The National Weather Service, in a special weather statement, said the low pressure system producing the storm will continue into Wednesday.
In the higher elevations of the Sierra, several inches of snow will accumulate later today and tonight, impacting back country activities and travel over the high mountain passes," the weather service announced.
Later tonight, the weather service said, the low will move into the central and southern Sierra and remain nearly stationary through Wednesday. Snow levels will fall below 9,000 feet later tonight and and may drop as low as 7,500 feet at times over Mono County.
The two passes offer the most direct route to the San Francisco Bay Area from the Eastern Sierra. When they close, many locals refer to the Sierra high country as "The Granite Curtain."


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Detroit Public Schools continues to overspend
When a school district overspends, it is required to submit a plan to the Michigan Department of Education detailing how it will get out of the red ink. On Aug. 20, the MDE release this statement about Detroit Public Schools most recent Deficit Elimination Plan:
"It's important that Detroit Public Schools continues to receive sufficient State Aid as the district works through its longer-term financing options. Having an approved Deficit Elimination Plan is a component in that process."
In the approval letter from State Superintendent Mike Flanagan, it stipulates that "if the agreements with employees or other strategies included in the approved DEP are not implemented or do not result in the projected savings, the district must immediately reduce expenditures in other areas in order to meet the level of deficit reduction included in the approved DEP."
For the Record says: Detroit Public Schools have been overspending for seven consecutive years going back to 2007-08. Its overspending crisis has grown the past two years from $76.3 million to $120.3 million per year.


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Adaptive Level Control
Exploring the Complexities of Tuning Level Controllers and How an Adaptive Controller Can Be Used in Level Applications
By Greg McMillan, Sridhar Dasani and Dr. Prakash Jagadeesan
The tuning of level controllers can be challenging because of the extreme variation in the process dynamics and tuning settings. Control systems studies have shown that the most frequent root cause of unacceptable variability in the process is a poorly tuned level controller. The most common tuning mistake is a reset time (integral time) and gain setting that are more than an order of magnitude too small.
In this article we first provide a fundamental understanding of how the speed and type of level responses varies with volume geometry, fluid density, level measurement span and flow measurement span for the general case of a vessel and the more specific case of a conical tank. Next we clarify how tuning settings change with level dynamics and loop objectives. Finally, we investigate the use of an adaptive controller for the conical tank in a university lab and discuss the opportunities for all types of level applications.
General Dynamics for Vessel Level
There have been a lot of good articles on level control dynamics and tuning requirements. However, there often are details missing on the effect of equipment design, process conditions, transmitter calibration and valve sizing that are important in the analysis and understanding. Here we offer a more complete view with derivations in Appendix A, available on the ControlGlobal website (www.controlglobal.com/1002_LevelAppA.html).
Frequently, the flows are pumped out of a vessel. If we consider the changes in the static head at the pump suction to have a negligible effect on pump flow, the discharge flows are independent of level. A higher level does not force out more flow, and a lower level does not force out less flow. There is no process self-regulation, and the process has an integrating response. There is no steady state. Any unbalance in flows in and out causes the level to ramp. When the totals of the flows in and out are equal, the ramp stops. For a setpoint change, the manipulated flow must drive past the balance point for the level to reach the new setpoint. If we are manipulating the feed flow to the volume, the feed flow must be driven lower than the exit flow for a decrease in setpoint. The ramp rate can vary by six orders of magnitude from extremely slow rates (0.000001%/sec) to exceptionally fast rates (1%/sec). The ramp rate of level in percent per second for a 1% change in flow is the integrating process gain (%/sec/% = 1/sec). The integrating process gain (Ki) for this general case of level control, as derived in Appendix A, is:
Since the PID algorithm in nearly all industrial control systems works on input and output signals in percent, the tuning settings depend upon maximums. The flow maximum (Fmax) and level maximum (Lmax) in Equation 1 must be in consistent engineering units (e.g. meters for level and kg/sec for flow). The maximums are the measurement spans for level and flow ranges that start at zero. Most of the published information on process gains does not take into account the effect of measurement scales and valve capacities. The equation for the integrating process gain assumes that there is a linear relationship between the controller output and feed flow that can be achieved by a cascade of level to flow control or a linear installed flow characteristic. If the controller output goes directly to position a nonlinear valve, the equation should be multiplied by the slope at the operating point on the installed characteristic plotted as percent maximum capacity (Fmax) versus percent stroke.
Normally, the denominator of the integrating process gain that is the product of the density (ρ), cross-sectional area (A) and level span (mass holdup in the control range) is so large compared to the flow rate that the rate of change of level is extremely slow. For horizontal tanks or drums and spheres, the cross-sectional area varies with level. In these vessels, the integrating process gain is lowest at the midpoint (e.g. 50% level) and highest at the operating constraints (e.g. low- and high-level alarm and trip points).
Most people in process automation realize that a controller gain increased beyond the point at which oscillations start can cause less decay (less damping) of the oscillation amplitude. If the controller gain is further increased, the oscillations will grow in amplitude (the loop becomes unstable). Consequently, an oscillatory response is addressed by decreasing the controller gain. What most don't realize is that the opposite correction is more likely needed for integrating processes. Most level loops are tuned with a gain below a lower gain limit. We are familiar with the upper gain limit that causes relatively fast oscillations growing in amplitude. We are not so cognizant of the oscillations with a slow period and slow decay caused by too low of a controller gain. The period and decay gets slower as the controller gain is decreased. In other words, if the user sees these oscillations and thinks they are due to too high a controller gain, he or she may decrease the controller gain, making the oscillations worse (more persistent). In the section on controller tuning, we will see that the product of the controller gain and reset time must be greater than a limit determined by the process gain to prevent these slow oscillations.
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Has Hart of Dixie Been Canceled?
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"Sharknado 2: The Second One" may not officially touch down on the shoreline of New York until its official release date of July 30, but Comic-Con attendees looking to celebrate the highly anticipated sequel can attend a panel with the film's stars.
Syfy announced its programing for the pop-culture exposition today, beginning with a panel featuring the stars of the follow-up to 2013's shamelessly campy "Sharknado," including returning headliners Ian Ziering (Fin Shepard) and Tara Reid (April Wexler), plus new-to-the-'nado actors Vivica A. Fox (Skye), Kari Wuhrer (Ellen Shepard Brody) and Judah Friedlander (Bryan) on Thursday, July 24. They'll be joined by returning director Anthony C. Ferrante. The panel will run from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. in Room 6BCF of the San Diego Convention Center.
A new trailer for "Sharknado 2" premiered this week. You can watch it below.
On Friday, the stars of Syfy's newest show, "Dominion," a supernatural angel/apocalypse drama only three episodes in, will be hosting a panel discussion and take fans behind the scenes of the fledgling show. Actors Chris Egan (Alex Lannon), Tom Wisdom (Archangel Michael), Roxanne McKee (Claire Riesen), Alan Dale (Gen. Edward Riesen), Anthony Stewart Head (David Whele) and executive producer Vaun Wilmott are slated to appear. The event will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Room 6DE.
Then on Saturday, Syfy fans can binge on a triple-header of panel appearances.
First up is a panel with the stars of "Helix," one of Syfy's breakout hits this year, which features a team of scientists battling an outbreak that threatens to end civilization. The show, which ranked among the network's highest-rated programs, was just renewed for a second season. The panel will include Kyra Zagorsky (Dr. Julia Walker), Mark Ghanimé (Maj. Sergio Balleseros), Jordan Hayes (Dr. Sarah Jordan), Neil Napier (Dr. Peter Farragut) and executive producers Ronald D. Moore and Steven Maeda. The event will take place from noon to 1 p.m. at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel's Indigo Ballroom.
Immediately following, the cast of the newly returned "Defiance," the aliens-and-humans-coexisting-in-a-future-Earth drama that just began its second season, will take the Indigo Ballroom stage. Actors Grant Bowler (Nolan), Julie Benz (Amanda Rosewater), Stephanie Leonidas (Irisa), Tony Curran (Datak Tarr), Jaime Murray (Stahma Tarr), Jesse Rath (Alak Tarr) and executive producer Kevin Murphy will show video and discuss the big changes ahead for Votan-human relations from 1 to 2 p.m.
A little later in the afternoon, over in the convention center's Room 6DE, the cast of "Ascension" will appear from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Syfy is hoping the highly anticipated six-hour miniseries will repeat the past glory of its biggest miniseries successes, "Battlestar Galactica" and "Alice." Tricia Helfer, best known to Battlestar fans as Number Six, stars in the upcoming show, set to premiere in November. It revolves around the crew of a century-long covert space journey, now 50 years into their trip. Helfer plays Viondra Denninger, the ship's chief steward as well as the wife of Brian Van Holt's Capt. William Denninger. Those two will be on hand at the panel, along with Andrea Roth and executive producer Philip Levens.
Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg for Comic-Con events. We'll be posting more announcements and picks of what not to miss in the coming days. In the meantime, what are you excited for at Comic-Con 2014? Let us know in the comments below.
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This is the third summer that we've headed out to Cannon Beach, Oregon for Labor Day weekend. Never quite sure of what the weather will be up to, we take our chances and wait until the last minute to book a room. Every year, so far, we've gotten the last room in town – at the Holiday Inn Express in neighboring Seaside.
We've established some food "habits" for the trip which involve a pit stop along the way and a meal in Cannon Beach. Since I'm told by the locals that September and October are really the best months to visit, I'm hoping these favorite places of ours might come in handy if you find yourself in these parts soon.
This year we didn't take off until Saturday, which meant we could chill out on Friday night in Seattle. Chill we did with the boozy drinks from Ba Bar's new slushy machine (pictured here). I was expecting something obnoxious and sweet ala New Orleans street style Hurricanes. Instead we got our icy concoctions served in respectable cocktail glasses. The featured drinks of the weekend were a Poivre Punch with Prosecco (refreshing) and the Old Country with Amaro CioCiaro and blackberry liqueur. The Amaro added a wonderfully bitter note.
On the way up the coast (we take the scenic route on 101), we always stop for lunch in South Bend, the supposed Oyster capital of the world, famous for their Willapa Bay oysters. At River View Dining (the name suggests everything it's not: fancy and scenic), run for 12 years by Mexican owner Moreno and his wife, we always order the grilled oysters--and ribs for my daughter. If the food weren't so good, we might not have made it back after our first time there.
Moreno is a hulking, surly guy who cooks and waits tables. When you arrive at lunch he's less than welcoming. By the time he gets around to acknowledging you or getting you water, he finally blurts out something to the effect of: "Do you have enough time? It'll be 45 minutes before I can pick up your order. If not, better keep moving." (He warms up though; I was shocked he let me take his picture.)
We would have kept moving on that first visit if the table of four locals – all tree farmers (it's a big logging area), wouldn't have clued us in. One particularly dapper 82-year-old farmer patron in a purple-striped shirt with lime green suspenders (who often charmingly gets up to pour water and bus tables when it's busy, which seems like always) told us that the grilled oysters were the best we would ever have. To convince us, he brought over one of their oysters hot off the grill, instructing me to not let any of the juices go, "slurp it right away."
I awkwardly held the steaming hot shell, tilting it into my mouth to drink down the juice bathing quite a plump oyster. Butter, garlic, parsley, white wine, something spicy (?) --the secret sauce that Moreno squirts the oysters with as they grill outside on a massive griller/smoker contraption was indeed delectable. The oyster itself was meaty, its inner juice just waiting to release upon first bite, and had just the right hint of char. Sold. We waited the 45 minutes for two dozen more.
Besides oysters, they'll cook ribs to order outside (also a 45-minute affair), and their clam and salmon chowder with ample chunks of seafood defies the creamy monotony that too often passes for chowder. Their pulled pork sandwiches are pretty darn good too; the dark as chocolate house-made BBQ sauce has a smoky, spicy finish and sort of calls to mind an Asian chutney kind of sweetness (sounds weird, I know). I've never tried the burgers or the root beer floats. The only signs of anything vaguely trendy here are Chai and a Hibiscus Lemonade.
Once we're in Cannon Beach, we always go to The Irish Table for dinner – ditching the Seaside mess of fried Twinkies and taffy shops (though we come back later for a cone for my daughter and to ride the bumper cars). Coffee shop by day and stellar restaurant by night, this cozy cabin-like space doesn't take reservations. On a weekend night, they open at 5:30 and people start crowding onto the lawn and hanging out in the Adirondack chairs by 5. If you miss that first seating, you might not get in until 8 or 9.
When I first came, I was skeptical. Irish food is not my favorite. Turns out that it's really just a great farm to table place with nods to Ireland via their warm soda bread, Shepherd's Pie and a handsome list of Irish whiskeys. But, in a wonderful twist, the Shepherd's Pie is vegetarian, packed with meaty morels (pictured here). Besides that, there are just a handful of other offerings, usually a flat iron steak, a pork chop, a fish dish, a cheese plate, Penn Cove mussels in green curry and a few seasonal salads and soups.
The Carlton Farms chop was served with a sweet/sour huckleberry sauce this year – and a side of wild rice and cabbage. The soup was a curried lentil – vegan though wonderfully lush and bright yellow like the sun beaming down on us on the front porch -- that even my six-year-old daughter couldn't resist. Likewise, you'll find only a few desserts; we always get the Coconut Trifle. The dense layers of cake and spoonfuls of coconut cream-- a tad tangy and barely sweet--is by far one of the best coconut desserts I've ever had (and coconut desserts are among my favorite).
As great as the meal was though, I was most smitten with a drink they call "The Plunkett" (pictured here): Fresh muddled oranges, Irish whiskey and Ginger Ale on the rocks. I made it within moments after our five-hour trip home on Monday night. Talk about a simple summer drink that'll go down shockingly (and perhaps dangerously) easy….


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It is my belief that most of the trees we plant around the homestead and provide water for should be fruit trees rather than ornamental, and being California, nearly anything you plant will grow if provided the proper soil and water.
The gold country is pretty similar along the Mother Lode with the lower areas of it being pretty heavily influenced by heating from the valley. As cooler air flows from the mountains in the evening (heavier) it displaces the warm air from the valley and it comes up to us at night. I find that the frosts are just hard enough that it is a bit hard to do well here with citrus. We have a lemon, and a lime but freezes and snow are a bit much for them. Not dead yet though.
What we do have... all trees (about 35 of them now with 20 new ones this year) are less than 5 years old with most being planted one to two years. Apricots - eating lots of them - peaches - producing first and second crops - pluot - 4 varieties - doing great- various plums - doing well - many types of apples - just getting first few apples - cherries - birds got the few there - 4 walnut trees this year - look OK - multiple plums on one tree - looking well -
Looks like most types of fruit trees will do well here and especially they like to be on berms rather than down in the clay. A hole in the clay with a tree in it becomes a bathtub full of water drowning the roots in the winter. Planting on berms on the hill side prevents water damavge to the roots and provides a flow of air in the winter preventing a lot of frost damage.
As you can see in the pix of my dog and berms in the winter, flow down the hill was not a problem with the berms there although there will be the occasional over run. I follow the contour of the ground to make the berms horizontal on the mountainside with only a slight slope in the direction I want water to flow. I put checks in the road to hold water in it to allow soaking in rather than running off. The grasses reached over 4 feet on the berms this year. We have only 6 inches to a couple of feet of what I consider top soil above the hard porphyry clay that is common along the mother lode. The porphyry will hold water for weeks if a hole is dug in it.
I took the top soil from the road area and piled it onto the tree berm to make more good soil for the trees. This captures the runoff and forces it to soak into the berm area. Grasses stabilize the berms in the fall then in the spring I clean the road and widen the berms between the trees. This fall the native grasses will again grow on the berms in abundance. I don't seed them but they are well covered each fall with grass. Try to have the berms done before the first rains.
Note that neighbors are not a problem here but could be the source of complaints in higher population density areas. There are grading exemptions from most codes for farming, fire breaks, water source access roads - existing roads and fence line access. This terrace system is for fire safety (ease of making a fire break), farming and fence line access as well as access to a spring at the bottom of our property appx 1/4 mile away. We have 20 acres on this piece and go well down both sides of the ridge.
Keep in mind that you may want to have rain water storage ponds also.
Try to become familiar with your soil - does it really wash away or does it make a decent terrace and stay put. I thought washing might be a problem but it does not seem to be. Try to make sure that you contain runoff on your property. I read a story about a Chinese fellow that did the same as me. He said that water at the bottom of the hill is not a problem if you first take care of it at the top. He converted a dry area such as ours into a wetland with terraces, berms and swales etc. He had to prove to the government he did it to keep from getting fined for farming a wetland.
Wish I could find that story now. He had been imprisoned and when released he was sent to a piece of worthless land. Over about 20 years his methods completely changed the land and made it useful and lush.
I would start at the top using the water there then work my way down to prevent problems. Start small then enlarge it as you can handle it each year.
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Forgot to mention that the trees in this pix to the right of the Bobcat are pomegranate w/first fruit this year - there are 2, two year old ones and one one year old. The tree in other pix before them is a peach - second year and loaded - knocked a few peaches off with one of the long logs - thinning I guess.
Backing up a little, in planning the bed, I decided to make it a little bigger while I had the opportunity. It was originally around 10 feet wide and I went to about 12. That necessitated removing a large landscaping rock and taking it to the front yard. Here it is barely visible in my before pix so I circled it to show where it is.
Now you can see the peach tree in this pix - the pomegranates are behind it in a row.
Here is the rock going away in the Bobcat. Roughly 6000 lbs as the Bobcat would tip onto the front of the tracks as I was leaning down hill - 6000 is tipping capacity of the Bobcat - the point at which it begins to roll over forward. No worries most of the time - if you are not facing down a steep hill - the bucket will hit the ground before you end over end it.
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Ludi wrote:
I have machinery envy!
Ludi, don't forget that the guy with the big tools has the big bills to keep it running too.
Actually I kind of rushed this project because I wanted to get it done and the Bobcat has a pretty serious oil leak that I am having a very hard time finding. The clay here stops the migration of the oil until the soil bacteria - especially in manures - breaks it down. A friend of mine re-mediated a diesel spill with horse manure to where the county inspectors could not find a trace of pollution and allowed him to re-bury it.
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it was so fun watching him..
he isn't finished yet..but he took some very huge piles of pond muck and has spread them now over a bunch of rotting aspen and wild cherry trees as well as buried in there is a lot of green brush..
that all should rot really nicely under there..and the pond muck was full of good stuff too..and it should make some really great soil..some of it will be left to roads..and a small clearing..that i'll plant the perimeter of with wildlife /human food plants..like berries and fruits..but there is a good amount of it that got pushed between the large trees that were left and that will provide great planting areas for shrubs and understory trees.
the main trees that were left in this area are 2 large red maples, several 6 to 8 inch across trunk size wild cherries and a lot of aspens..many still dead or dying..and some small white ash trees..and to the east is an alder swamp..
i have 3 walnuts to the south spaced about 30' apart..and there is a clearing north of the walnuts that is a firearms shooting range with a tall deep dirt bank o shield the woods from stray bullets.
Bloom where you are planted.
That should be a great place to grow. I find all of the berms I have created grow things much better than the way they were originally. Plant roots need air too so the broken soil and decaying vegetation buried really improve things. I also find that terracing activity around existing trees such as our oaks greatly accelerates their growth rather than damaging them for the most part. There are exceptions but for the most part they grow larger faster. 8 years experience with this observation.
I found out about the need for air to the roots when doing NFT hydroponics.
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Bloom where you are planted.
i'm very interested to see if that is true that the tree growth will be accelerated..that would be so nice..esp with the baby walnut trees as they are so tiny.
i do know that the soil here is tremendously fertile..but it might be a while before i can get much planted in it..as every time i plant things Joel decides to play with the tractor ..i ended up pulling up a pine tree i had put in the woods as he was going to run over it..so it got moved to a new place..
our little tractor is a lot smaller than the one you were using..but boy it sure has been a blessing. he also has a back blade for it and a few other gadgets..it was the best investment besides our land and house that we have made.
our woods goes back 900 feet and is about 200 feet wide..not huge but there are just us old folks and our son..so it doesn't have to be huge..the area that he is working on is fairly young..and then there s a tall grassy area north of that and then more woods..it is a bit swampyish in some areas and there is an underground creek in some areas..so we have to be careful how we move through it..to the east of the area he is workinig is an alder swamp, and then a drainage ditch..and then a large field that we have been putting to forest, which now is dotted with fairly large pine and alder trees..
our goal is to welcome more and more wildlife but also provide human food
Bloom where you are planted.
Lots of property is not of a lot of use except for keeping elbow room. My land was much more useful after I made roads down the mountain and property line.
As you have found, now instead of brush piles to burn we will have resources for hugelkultur beds.
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Our mountain here is clay and rock. Before making flat spots the hard ground would shed most of the rain. After breaking the clay up and making a terrace apparently there is so much more available moisture that the Oak trees and grasses increase in growth greatly rather than getting root damage as I had been told they might. I found that even removing as much as 1/3 of the dirt from around the roots when making a road cut seldom damaged the tree.
I find that it is near impossible to manage and improve a large piece of property without equipment that is up to the challenge. Not necessarily new but useful anyway.
Little to nearly no available nutrients in the soil here per the test but we are slowly changing that one area at a time.
I believe that concentrating on growing more human food is going to be needed much more in the near future. Corporate farms have bought legislation to put the little farms out of business and if they have a problem, or simply get a stranglehold on the market, food prices will skyrocket or it may not be available.
The sooner we quit relying on them the better, but we need to continue to teach our friends the importance of gardening as we improve our skills also.
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Bull pines around here are a smaller extremely tough non commercial pine and I use them for lumber or beams when I can, but if they sit too long before I find a use for them they become tough enough to dull the saw. In a couple years if not cut they will then get well rotted. You can see a standing one down the hill in front of the Bobcat. If cut into lumber and cared for they will last a hundred or more years like other wood.
This is a great use for them and I would not have found out about it without Paul's video. Thanks again, Paul.
Here the hole is nearly completely filled. With the Bobcat giving me a bit of a hint that it wanted more oil I decided that this was about enough. Time to get the soil back in place.
I had previously reached up on the bank and salvaged the topsoil from there as well as doing Bobcat slip-n-slide on the side hill trying to get as much of the good top soil as I could.
We are on a Greenstone (meta-andesite) ridge and there are multiple dikes running in different directions poking up through the clay.
To the end and left side of the hugelkultur bed is a very substantial dike making this the end of the road for this bed and a great place for a garden . That is why the big landscape rock I removed was there. Our soil averages from 20 to 30 percent rocks in clay so we either work them out of the soil or avoid them.
Here is an older pix of my small garden terrace just below this bed -(note the pomegranates visible above) - about 15 to 20 feet below the pomegranates and peach tree. I added a bit of wood chips, straw and alpaca manure to the soil along with a bit of old composted horse manure and some fertilizer. It still needs water often. That is why I found the hugelkultur so interesting.
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i definately don't need terrances..however..burying the brush and logs under the pond muck did raise the soil in that area probably 2 or 3 feet..but the land does slope away to the North anyway..but only slightly..so it is wetter to the north in the rear part of our woods, with a underground creek in some areas, you can hear it running, probably springs too..it will take some care in opening it up without damaging the creek and drainage and soil and trees..but it will be worth it to be able to access it.
Bloom where you are planted.
I have some new pix of the garden terrace. The rocks for the wall came right out of the garden and the terrace a few feet below.
This was a small terrace and I did the work mostly with the new rototiller and by hand, to level the terrace and work the straw (weed-eated natural and added) as well as a scoop of mill waste and a couple scoops of alpaca manure. We had very heavy natural grass here this year so I worked it in too. It had to be broken in size with the weed eater to keep from clogging the tiller.
The space was too small and steep to get the Bobcat into but it was a very nice space between the two tree terraces. One tree terrace is roughly 160 feet long and the lower one is roughly 320 feet long. This garden terrace is roughly 8' x 45'
Here is a shot of the west end.
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For those who don't know what deer are - they are large four legged rodents that can clean out a garden or orchard in minutes, ruining months of hard work.
While not one hundred percent guaranteed, here is what I did to protect this terrace and the above terrace last year as the deer browsed through eating my trees. It has worked for me though.
The idea was a tip from a guy at the lumberyard.
Click pix for the short video.
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Thanks for sharing all of this information, it's really helped my thinking about what to do about my place here. It's like you are reading my mind the past few days. I read your original reply to my post and it was so obvious to begin working at the top since water flows downhill. I was going to put my first swale in at the bottom . . .I was tied to the idea of the fence being the end of the property and so that is where I start to save my water . . . funny how we think that way. So you saved me some trial and error probably there. Then I start thinking about the terracing around the oaks and I immediately began thinking about staying out of the dripline to avoid rotting their roots. So I log on today and see that you have posted about that. I scroll down and see your garden and think, "yeah but how does he keep the deer out of there" (they defoliated my pomegranate tree earlier this spring). Then I scroll down a bit more and see that you have a post about that too. So thanks . . .it's like an online tutorial! I burned some of my stuff this year, but also saved a bunch after I began reading about hugelkulture . I have enough for a fairly large bed now and am looking for the best place to locate. I think that I have a spot. I took a picture, but my two year old daughter has worked her chaos upon my digital camera cord, so; I'll have to post that later. Are the pine trees you are talking about also known as "digger" pines, or are you talking about another species?
How high is the deer fence? Looks like around 5'? I like the string idea. Somewhere else on the forum, someone mentioned that adding in some extra sticks or flags along a fence to bring the height up was enough to discourage deer even without a solid barrier.
We'll be working in a lot of hugel beds into our new place up in southwestern OR. Lot of the similar climate issues that you have mentioned, we're just a fair bit cooler. A couple of other tree fruit varieties that I am hopeful will do well here are figs, jujubes and olives. All are very drought tolerant once established and the hugel beds may be a big help in those first critical years. Asian persimmons may be worth a try as well as I have seen them do well in a wide variety of soils and during dry summers.
For berry bushes, the named varieties of goumi and autumn olive fit well in the picture with poor soil to start and dry summers.
I may have to look in to renting a bobcat to make the work go faster It would be nice to get the benefit of the machine and have someone else enjoy the maintenance!
Thanks again
"Limitation is the mother of good management", Michael Evanari
Location: Southwestern Oregon (Jackson County), Zone 7
The pine is the same species although the Digger Pine name was directed as a bit of a slur toward the native Americans here (by the White Eyes) who used to eat the seeds as well as make necklaces from them and other things. Bull Pine is another name for them. Also Gray Pine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Pine
Southeast farmer, the fence is about 5 or so feet high but it is on top of a 2 foot cut so to a deer it would hopefully look around 7 feet. I was considering extending the posts with wood sticks and more string lines if needed but haven't had a problem yet. I also read and have heard that you can put another low string a few feet in front of the low fence to really mess them up. They lose their springing area so apparently will not try.
The reason for the second terrace was that I put a cattle fence below and that was going to be my last area of land I claimed from the cows to keep with the cabin area. I only have 3 steers so I'm not much of a cowboy. Don't even have them home yet. I made the terrace to see how it would work out then put the cow fence a bit below it where it worked well. Since the terrace was now there I decided this year was the time to plant the fruit trees and get them growing.
I went with the string last year as I was not sure where the cow fence was going. This year I wanted a fence around the garden so it was string again. Wire fence is a lot of work and expensive. Deer netting fence is expensive. No climb fence is expensive. All permanent fences are a lot of work to take down if plans change .String seems to work just fine and it's reasonably cheap. I think bailer twine would be best as it will not likely rot in the sun from UV as fast. About a mile on a roll too as I recall.
I want to get olives here - maybe get a start from our tree in the valley. There are persimmons and olives near here in colder areas so I am sure they will do well here though I don't have them yet.
Talked to my renter/neighbor who said his dad did hugelkultur in Sweethome, OR. He learned it years ago from a possibly Mennonite neighbor he did some logging for. They saved the old trees to bury in the beds.
Stalk_of_fennel, the man at the lumberyard mentioned fishing line - string or anything for the deer. He said they didn't like things touching their ears or the wiggling strings - they didn't trust things that were unstable - a bit paranoid I guess.
The deer ate about a third of our garden in a few hours when we were gone a couple years ago. Since then we have had a 7 foot deer fence around the cabin garden.
Things to keep i mind about the Bobcat are that wheel varieties are kind of unstable sideways. Mine has widened wheels for the tracks and that makes it much more stable but it is still a possibility of tipping it over. They are great if you have a safe area to use them in. I don't know about the rubber tracked variety. The rocks here would eat $5000 worth of tracks in six months or so. On rental they would be OK. Note that I am about half crazy also and tipping over is not as great a scare as it should be - wear your seat belt to keep from getting thrown from the rig and smashed.
I am originally from Rose Lodge, Or. Family homesteaded there and still own land as well as live near there (Lincoln City).
Glad I could be of assistance - I like to share what I know as well as learn from the rest of you.
I'm also admin on Countryplans where Paul was good enough to share his hugelkultur video as well as others.
Here is my place for those who don't already know me. http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0
I like sharing free knowledge and helping those who will help themselves.
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I have told the folks in the thread "keeping deer out of my stuff" to check it out.
Thanks also to everyone who has made this thread so fun & educational!
I learn stuff every time I visit.
Here are a few shots of the completed hugelkultur bed from different viewpoints so you can get a better idea of how it looks.
From the Driveway about 15 feet elevation above
From the terrace looking east over the bed
From the West end of the bed looking down the rest of the terrace - roughly 11 trees and 3 pomegranates on this terrace and it runs fairly east-west along the side of the mountain. Drainage is such that about half of the water will go west for the last half of the trees and half will come this way toward the hugelkultur bed. This winter that should store a lot of rainwater that will be of use by the plants rather than runoff down the mountain. All runoff from activities on my property are captured in the grass on the hillside. A quarter mile or so down the mountain it is a bit of a bowl toward my spring so there is never any runoff to bother the neighbors below. Actually runoff does not make it past a few feet below the terrace in the worst spots.
Total elapsed time to build the hugelkultur bed was about 4 hours. The bed is now about a foot above the original ground level with the soil filled in over and between the logs. That makes it about 3 1/2 feet above the bottom of the excavated area to the top of the new soil level. That will of course subside as the logs decay.
While doing your projects it is important to keep the neighbors in mind. Keeping happy neighbors keeps you out of site and out of mind. Working to build alliances with the neighbors keeps complaints about your activities from being generated, provides security when you are away and a group that can stick together and help each other out when times get tight.
I find good friends to be more important in the country where big brother is not around as much and we need to learn to do things for ourselves. What will the cities do if big brother ever goes missing or can no longer meet their needs? We are miles ahead of them as we learn more and more to take care of ourselves. Hugelkultur is a part of that.
It took longer to write the story than to build the bed, but it was fun and hopefully helpful. Now off to some other project.
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mine still need a whole lot of work before i'm at a planting stage as my son does the tractor work and he has very little TIME..generally working as much as over 72 hours a week..i'm lucky when he wants to play on the tractor..and heads my way.
i hope to rent a backhoe over the labor day weekend and get my pond dug deeper and enlarged..and some of that soil will go into covering more down trees and paths into my woods..good pond muck
Bloom where you are planted.
Glenn Kangiser wrote:What will the cities do if big brother ever goes missing or can no longer meet their needs?
Most big cities have neighborhoods that big brother does not serve, and never has. Those tend to be the sorts of neighborhood I can afford to live in, anway, but I also feel they are more collapse-proof: people here have figured out how to handle not only a lack of support, but vigorous and sustained interference.
I'm more worried about suburbs, and subsidy-dependent farms.
Back on topic:
If I get a little more space to garden in, there is a huge source of free firewood in town that perennially advertises on Craigslist (to avoid tipping fees, I guess). I bet there are some really rotten pieces of wood available from that source.
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Note that the cities only have about 3 days worth of food stocked in the stores. I help build them. They are no longer stores, but instead, terminals for truck unloading, so anything we can do to help ourselves is to our advantage.
Hugelkultur, even in the city islands is an advantage although water could be a problem.
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Depends on his attitude.
- Glenn -
Not like I'm even worried about hiding out or anything - in fact I have invited quite a few city folks up here if there ever are problems.
I have a friend who is a retired NBA player. He is worried about the water supply in LA if there are ever problems with the system. He has a ranch up here too.
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Things you may think about that you may not otherwise.... It actually leads us right back to the topic and the reason we should be thinking about such things as hugelkultur and raising our own food or increasing our capabilities of taking care of ourselves and friends... of making alliances with like minded individuals.
California will be rough in case of problems - any burp in the system could bring it down. The three day supply of food in the stores could be gone in one in the case of panic buying.
A SHTF situation will likely not happen but being more prepared for it will lessen the chances of being caught with your pants down.
Do you foresee any problems with Alaska?
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We have put away some long term storage Items - 30 year canned grain - rice - etc we get through some Mormon friends. Yeah -we can't feed the world but it may help gain time to get more of the self sufficiency things going.
We will go from having things trucked in to possibly not having that ability.. then it is instantly... we take care of our own. An easier transition if we are already preparing to take care of ourselves. Big brother will have bigger problems.. look at his powerlessness to stop Katrina or even the current BP well from killing the gulf.
Our area is really a rough area - think Afghanistan and you are about like our area. Hugelkultur and other self sustaining aids could become crucial to our survival. That is why it is important to make decisions regarding supporting ourselves now while we still can. Not looking will not protect us from events that are out of our control.
We are in a decent food growing area - on a mountain out of the deep cold in the valleys even 1/2 mile away - you can see them in the above pix if you check the background. They get 20 degrees colder than us - we can grow a winter garden here but water is a bit scarce so conservation with hugelkultur will be a big benefit.
Hugelkultur is just another tool to increasing our self reliance.
Nothing may ever happen...but then again.. who really knows?
The prepared ones will be more ready for anything in life - even losing a job.
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Most of the areas they get the water from are pretty remote even down here but people could move there. The real problems will be the ones that never thought it could happen and have no gardening or hugelkultur skills.
I think people like Joel are the exception rather than the rule.
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Wood doesn't care where it is so it would hold the moisture. It may be that you would want to add nitrogen in one way or another as the carbon in the wood will want some of it. You may also want to put the pot rather full considering that the wood will rot down a good bit.
Nothing like a good bit of hands on experimenting to find out I guess.
Possibly starting with some decently rotted would could be a benefit in the case of a pot.
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